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"Never! 'pon my honour! never!"--exclaimed Julius, in a tone of moderate
enthusiasm. "You may call _them_ eyes, sir," and here he elevated his own.
"And what lips?"
"Positively provoking!"
"Ah, sir!" languishingly remarked Augustus, "he will be a happy may who
gets possession of such a treasure!"
"He will, indeed, sir," returned his unknown rival, with an air of
self-satisfaction, as if he believed that happiness was likely to be his
own.
"You are aware, I suppose, sir," proceeded the communicative Mr. Peacock,
"that there is a certain party whom Miss Gray looks upon with particular
favour"--and the gentleman, to give peculiar emphasis to the remark,
slightly elevated his cravat.
"I should think I ought to be"--pointedly returned Mr. C.--simpering
somewhat diffidently at the idea that the observation was levelled at
himself.
The two rivals looked at each other, tittered, and bowed.
"Ah! yes--I dare say--observed it, no doubt!" said Augustus, when his
emotion had subsided.
"Why, yes--I should have been blind indeed could I have failed to remark
it," responded Julius.
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